Theres an interview somewhere with Anthony Burgess. In it he speaks of
setting various pieces of H's poems to music, and also of finishing a play
of H's. I am sure many people have done things with Browning, and there are
some French musicans who have sets lots of H's work to music.
>From: Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: syllabics
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:37:48 +0100
>
>My wife, for whom the research is, wrote:
> >>>>>
>Of course, Bridges. I should have known. Tried to set one of his poems to
>music (about 40+ years ago; problem was not being a good enough pianist to
>write an adequate piano part), and thinking back over the melody, it's
>clear
>I was aware of the rhythmic requirements. I think he had a lot more
>influence in his day than his readership these days might suggest. I wonder
>now if he himself deliberately set this syllabic hare running, being as he
>was in close correspondence with Hopkins and his so different prosodic
>developments.
>
>Do thank Robin for me, I'd be most interested in the article. Am sure he's
>right about the classical slosh-over, remembering how I tried to write
>Virgilian hexameters in the sixth-form, fully expecting to end up with
>something vaguely Miltonic, and instead got something like rudimentary
>sprung rhythm <<<<<
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